Notices by aby is tired of your bullshit (aby@aus.social), page 3

I got to use my jail bag today!

I live near Bathurst jail. I used to live across the corner from it, but now we've moved about 10 minutes away.

While we lived across the corner I'd often see people released from the jail and start the 50 minute walk down to the station as they were just dumped back into society with less and less assistance or support in place. I'd often pop out the front door and ask of they wanted a lift, a number of times they'd say yes and I'd drive them down to the station (and once to Lithgow because he missed the train). People who do their time at Bathurst have been shipped in from all over the state, and are expected to just be able to get home again.

They also all carry their belongings in a clear plastic baggie the jail has given them, and everyone here knows if someone is carrying that bag they've just been released.. and a lot of people treat them like shit.

I started keeping a reusable shopping bag in my car to give them instead of using the clear baggie. Then I started stocking the bag with some essentials (masks, soap, socks, deodorant, snacks, drink, water, crossword book, pen, etc), so they might have a bit of comfort on their journey home.

Today I drove past the jail after dropping my housemate to work, and there was a guy standing at the bus stop with a clear baggie, so I asked if he wanted a lift to the station and gave him my jail bag.

He's excited to get home and see his dog after 16 months.

#AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #anarchism #CommunityNotCops #FuckThePolice #Criminology #CriminalJustice

#queer #trans #anarchism #pride #activism #MutualAid

#ProBlack #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation

The comments that got him fired:

“We will not be intimidated, especially when we are trying to stop a genocide,” he told the house.

“Any time police officers resort to the use of force against non-violent protesters, they violate these principles and undermine the consent and respect necessary for the police to do their job.”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/16/nsw-premier-chris-minss-sacks-labor-mp-anthony-dadam-karen-webb-police-pro-palestine-protest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#AusPol #Australia #NSW #NSWPol #NSWPolice #Palestine #FreePalestine #FuckColonisation

So, Charles unveiled his official portrait today.. and it's giving Ghostbusters 2

..is that the blood of the colonised?

#KingCharles #UKPol #Royals #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #FuckColonisation #FuckTheRoyals #Movies #Ghostbusters #Ghostbusters2

Lilith.

#Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Kitten #Kittens #KittensOfMastodon

YouTube Family is jumping from $17.99/month to $32.99/month..

#SubscriptionServices #YouTube #CostOfLivingCrisis #CostOfProfitsCrisis

Shouting "self-care" at people who actually need "community care" is how we fail people.

- Nakita Valerio, 2019

#SelfCare #CommunityCare #MutualAid

#language #linguistics #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded

#USA #USPol #America #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation

It's International Women's Day.

Just a reminder that trans women are women.

#InternationalWomensDay #Women #trans #queer #IWD #IWD24 #IWD2024

"In other words: Forcing employees to work in an office doesn’t benefit companies, but does harm the lives of employees — at least in the short term.

More to the point: Most companies cannot show actual monetary benefits from RTO mandates. But most employees can show actual and significant monetary costs from RTO mandates.

In essence, these kinds of mandates represent a transfer of wealth from employees that their employers don’t even benefit from."

#WFH #RTO #COVID #jobs

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3712843/the-hidden-high-cost-of-return-to-office-mandates.html

A friend helped set up this project in Gaza to buy and set up solar panels (already in Gaza, not being used) to help young Palestinian Writers. For each $1k comes in they can buy equipment to transfer to a household.

Please support and share.

#Gaza #GazaGenocide #Israel #Palestine #FromTheRiverToTheSea #PleaseShare #PleaseHelp #MutualAid #IndigenousMutualAid

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Since October, Israel's ongoing bombardment of Gaza has destroyed over 50% of all infrastructure, rooftop solar and power stations. Fuel supplies have been cut and residents lack consistent access to food, water or electricity.

Families must walk long distances and wait in line, often for hours, for limited supplies of food and water or to charge a mobile phone (typically their only source of light at night, as well as connection to the outside world).

But a group of young Palestinian writers are fiercely determined to get their stories about Israel's genocide out to the world and are working to Repower Gaza, one light at a time.

We Are Not Numbers (WANN) has located the equipment and technicians inside Gaza necessary to produce a limited amount of solar power kits, enough to immediately restore power to the team of storytellers and their extended families (an estimated 50 households and around 1,000 people). Each kit will generate enough power to light five rooms and power up to 20 mobile phones daily. If more resources become available later, WANN will extend the effort to their broader communities. It will cost US$40,000 to purchase and install the kits.

Donate now and help provide light to Gaza.

The mission of We Are Not Numbers is to train and support a new generation of Palestinian writers, and share their powerful narratives and bring wider understanding to the Palestinian liberation cause.

Please support Repower Gaza and share this grassroots effort to give light, hope and voice to Palestinians resisting genocide with your network.
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This project is an initiative of We Are Not Numbers, supported by the Middle East Children's Alliance, a registered US nonprofit organization. All funds raised will go directly to the purchase of solar kit componentry inside Gaza, to be deployed by trained solar technicians.

https://secure.everyaction.com/nqnFvmWo40K_m3nSTlqCmg2?fbclid=IwAR3qS-jmxzjXrF9kb8xrCgbcburfHD5wfHB8rfrBP8QXoZyKptEXudEmG8A

@RodneyPetersonTalent - what do you mean?

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation

@aral - you might like to read Necropolitics by Achilles Mbembe.

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition
#anarchism #CommunityNotCops #Community #ChosenFamily

Derek Chauvin has been stabbed in prison.

It's hard to stay an atheist when god is so good!

#FuckRacism #FuckThePolice

tbh i feel like the "if you stay on twitter you're letting nazis happen" discourse is sort of like telling me that im letting nazis happen bc I use the same supermarket.

im just trying to survive and buy some broccoli, my guy.

(it's also not lost on me that i most often see these posts by white cis men.. you know, the type of people who can find a home on mastodon pretty fucking easily..)

#twitter #x #nazis #LetPeopleFindCommunity

#Radicalisation #Violence #extremism #terrorism #Islamophobia